Edmund Mitchell (1861-1917) was the author of: Plotters of Paris (1900), The Despoilers (1904), In Desert Keeping (1905), Tales of Destiny (1913) and The Call of the Bells: A Novel (1916). "Just without one of the massive bastioned gates of the city of Fathpur-Sikri there stood in the year 1580 a caravanserai that afforded accommodation for man and beast. Here would alight travellers drawn by the calls of homage, by business, or by curiosity to the famous Town of Victory, built, as the inscription over the gateway told, by "His Majesty, King of Kings, Heaven of the Court, Shadow of God, Jalal-ad-din Mohammed Akbar Padishah. ""